These New Puritans have shared details of a new album, titled Crooked Wing.
Spanning 10 tracks, this is the brotherly duo’s first studio album since 2019’s Inside The Rose and their first full-length release with Domino since 2009’s Hidden. The record was produced by the group’s Jack Barnett together with Bark Psychosis’ Graham Sutton. The duo previously worked with Sutton on their standout albums Hidden and Field Of Reeds.
In a statement, the duo’s George Barnett said: “This album is both more surreal and somehow more direct than anything we’ve ever done. A crooked wing is an ear; you have one on each side of your body, and they have a rippled shape. Maybe if you’re lucky they can help you fly.”
To mark the album’s announcement, the Barnett brothers have shared two lead tracks: ‘Bells’ and the Caroline Polachek-featuring ‘Industrial Love Song’. You can to both songs below.
Speaking about ‘Bells’, Jack Barnett said: “This song started with a field recording we made of a bell in a small Orthodox Greek church. You can hear it in the song, and the rest of the song grew out of it. That one bell strike set a lot of the album in motion.”
On ‘Industrial Love Song’, he added that it was “a duet between two cranes on a building site. Caroline sings the part of one crane, I sing the other; they can’t touch (their movements are controlled by the operator), but when the sun rises they hope that their shadows will cross. I like how the title George came up with misdirects expectations – it’s not that kind of industrial.”
Domino will release Crooked Wing on May 23, 2025.
